The Labor enquirer., 1887-01-08

I'D btiIs sverytbtns y ! lcvS - pub:
10 sEaira ike the stssst Sa5 tfdvsl, fbt
Instance whste : psrsoIi H nct even
lhs chance 10 by for ths privilege 70
dh6w what claas hs belons 70.
4 While / was I'll Nselow Win tdmIra-
tiou Of the civilisatiop Of ohr Christian
~, 4. b. lssS. / ~ uhconsc,ously'
4trollina away towards Sther parts Of
~ cisv! Alter turning bsyeral streets
md corners / entered l long, marrow.
yety black, very dirty. aId vsrv dark
alley. ia spite Of its gas ieh and an occa-
nopal street lamp, About every five
pteps on each side of this gloomy pss-
Sage way there was an opening in the,
wall about . foot square, with solid
iron CRATE incased in it but no glass.
Behind these prison sir-holes there were
rooms about FIVE feet square 10 which
we're scores Of Chinese girls thrusting
their faces close up to the grating and
calling on the passefs.bv to come in
with them, with as much matter Of
fact wav as grocery man advertises
his goods.
wasin the heart of the Chinese
quarters. and the girls wsre all Chinese
prostitutes. and they stretched along for
miles each way. was then thinking Of
the millions v hich the board Of foreign
missions gathers from its dupes to put in
the hands Of aristocratic preachers and
their families to 90 to China and con,
vert tho poor heathens. 4
Further on, on street jnst az dark as
the Chinese alley but not quite as, for
bidding on account of its green skaters
and large windows. we're scores Of white
girls, setting or the steps or showing
their paint besmeared faces between
the partly-closed blinds. chrsin9 and
swearing OF begging pedestrians to come
in. These were Christian prostitutes
and they too were stretched along for
miles. Said to one Of them: "Busi-
ness must be overdone in your line
since you have to resort to such effront'
ery and boldness to secure customers
how much rentdo you pay here. and
who owns all these buildingsT' Show
ing down the street she said, that some
paid regular rent, which was in every
case all the traffic could bear, and thai
others played on the percentage, and
that the owners of all Of these blocks
around Was rldh San Francisco mill
ionaire, but that she had never seen
him. /''NopI said, "you never will see
him neither. The game of such kind
of wretches is not among them that are
already fallen. He lays for his victims
amons the unsuspecting. the pure ant
the innocent. He uses the influence
which our beautiful system of civiliza
ton gives to his accursed and criminal
wealth to bring them to your wretched
position and down to his moral level
And then again he may be high amons
the better class. 1t may be he is Q
church pillar. Who knows? He per
haps subscrbes freely for charitable
purposes and cannot afford to be seer
among his tenants. AS long as he has
got monev his reputation is assured
smong the upper ten; the parlors of on
best families are always open to hin
and he cannot afford to jeopardize his
high standing by visiting in person hi
dismal tenements."
/ Oh. hypocrisy! in the face of all thil
corruption, this weight Of misery, filth
and crime, our psfftical and religious
teachers clamor for the hanging of th'
Anarchists; they curse the Socialists
and pride themselves on being conser
vatives. Great God.
Il ANrHoN X DELEaLIsE.
i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2
H.